Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756208AbYAHUVr (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:21:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753073AbYAHUVk (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:21:40 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:35027 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751181AbYAHUVj (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:21:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Deprecate checkpatch.pl --file From: Daniel Walker To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Theodore Tso , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <20080108192142.GA26491@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080108161403.GA11632@basil.nowhere.org> <1199811033.1756.29.camel@imap.mvista.com> <20080108175347.GA25968@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1199815279.1756.35.camel@imap.mvista.com> <20080108182048.GM27800@mit.edu> <1199817208.1756.47.camel@imap.mvista.com> <20080108192142.GA26491@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:19:44 -0800 Message-Id: <1199823584.12972.1.camel@imap.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 (2.12.2-2.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 493 Lines: 15 On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 20:21 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > But is discourage the creation of pure clean-up patches because it > may have a disturbing effect on several other peoples work. pure clean ups are _good_ patches , are they not? Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/